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Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door

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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
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Model
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
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